What is Home Care?

Home care is a service offered to recovering, disabled, or chronically ill persons who need medical treatment and/or assistance with the activities of daily living. Generally, home care is appropriate when a person requires care and family and friends cannot easily or effectively provide it on their own. The National Association for Home Care (NAHC) estimates that more than 7 million Americans currently receive home care for mild, acute and long-term needs. This figure increases every day, as greater numbers of people are able to leave institutions or avoid entering them due to advances in technology. State-of-the-art medical equipment for use in the home can now provide treatment and services that once were only available in the hospital.

What are the Advantages of Home Care?

• Home care improves our society's quality of life by enabling individuals to stay in the comfort and security of their own homes during times of illness, disability, and recuperation.
• Home care maintains the patient's dignity and independence--qualities that may be lost in institutional settings.
• Home care offers a wide range of specialized services tailored to meet the needs of every individual on a personal provider-to-patient basis.
• Home care reinforces and supplements informal care by educating the patient's family members and friends about the care-giving process.

Who Pays for Home Care?

Public third-party payors include: Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Administration, Social Security Block Grant programs and community organizations. Private insurance programs typically cover some services for acute needs, but benefits for long term services vary from plan to plan.

For more information about home care services provided by ADORAY Home Health and Hospice, please call 715-684-5020 or 800-359-0174 or email l.huston@adoray.org